If you are thinking of getting MacJournal to use as a blog editor, don't waste your time, especially if you use WordPress. It's a fine application, but a real blog client it is not.

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It works well if you do basic blogging, but it has a tough time with image manipulation around text and other advanced blogging needs. Great as a journaling app and/or note taking app. I use it as my private journal.

Hi. I am considering buying the bundle based on whether MacJournal is a good blogging tool. I just created an account on blogspot so I could test it out. It seems to work with text but when I added an image to an entry in Macjournal, the image didn't show up on blogspot. I have no idea if the problem is with Macjournal, blogspot or whether I'm doing something wrong. Does anyone have any idea? Thanks

Hi. I am considering buying the bundle based on whether MacJournal is a good blogging tool. I just created an account on blogspot so I could test it out. It seems to work with text but when I added an image to an entry in Macjournal, the image didn't show up on blogspot. I have no idea if the problem is with Macjournal, blogspot or whether I'm doing something wrong. Does anyone have any idea? Thanks

You need to set-up MacJournal up to upload pics to a Picasa or similar account. Look in MacJournal's help menu to see how.

Edit/Addition:Let me take this opportunity to clarify my last post: MacJournal posts pictures to blogs just fine. If you generally just plan to have a photo posted with no frills as to how it looks in a post, MJ is fine. Basically, it's a solid app for an amateur blogger. My problem is I like to have more control over images. For example, adjusting a photo left or right, adding some padding, and having the text inline with the photo. MacJournal cannot do things like this at present.

I did, a few months back, bring this point up to the developer, and he did respond in a favorable way as to indicate that improved features along these lines might be added down the road.

I am not in to the whole journal thing and I only blog research paper resources so this app wasn't the greatest for a person of my type but if there is something I am missing from this app let me know.

Yes I'm 14 yes I love macs yes I have an Iphone soon an Ipad and I know I'm a nerd what else could you ask for in life.

Thanks WalrusCP for explanationWhat a pitty - "adjusting a photo left or right, ... and having the text inline with the photo" is what I call basic. The same for send up images to the same account at eg Wordpress. Yes, a pitty as MacJournal was my main reason for buying the bundle ... now I have to find another excuse

I just spent a few hours with it, I'm not into keeping journals or blogging all that much but so far this is great for my note-taking and homework-type needs. Can definitely see how it would be useful for planning trips, too.

When images don't post along with the text sent to Blogger (as an example) it is due to circumstances that may or may not be controllable by a typical user. It has to do with security set for permissions on specific folders. As a workaround, MacJournal can send to an alternate ftp location or to a service, like Picasa. Hope this info helps to clarify why it may not post an image along with the text.

When images don't post along with the text sent to Blogger (as an example) it is due to circumstances that may or may not be controllable by a typical user. It has to do with security set for permissions on specific folders. As a workaround, MacJournal can send to an alternate ftp location or to a service, like Picasa. Hope this info helps to clarify why it may not post an image along with the text.

Makes sense though, cuz where is it gona push the file on blogger? Most people have to link from online file sharing places anyways.

Hi Mariner Support and others,Is there a way to set the language back to English? It's localized to my native language and it seems to automatically switch to the system language, but as is very often the case with all kinds of software the localization is mediocre to say the least...

Rotting mushroom, by popular request."And those of little faith chose orange, and Jebediah told them: "Let green be chosen and God's will be done. For green to God is more pleasing than either violet or blue." - Jonah 3:12-14

EDIt: I just had a look at that app, Chris, and it's incredible! I wish I found it long ago. Now I can get rid of all the shoddy translations on my Mac, thank you so much.

Rotting mushroom, by popular request."And those of little faith chose orange, and Jebediah told them: "Let green be chosen and God's will be done. For green to God is more pleasing than either violet or blue." - Jonah 3:12-14

anyone wanna help me with setting up macjournal with a wordpress.com account. i connected everything fine and chose movabletype as the type of blog since wordpress is not a option and the upload was unable to send pictures or formatting correctly.

FYI: I migrated my Journler entries over to MacJournal by copying my Journler "Journler Entries" folder to the sidebar of MacJournal. The only problem was the links to the videos would call up Journler so I needed to right-click on the links in the corresponding Journler entry and show the original video in Finder and then copy it to MacJournal. Fortunately, I didn't have many videos to migrate.

... like The Hit List's iphone app from last year. That's still 'coming soon'. See first, believe later.

Rotting mushroom, by popular request."And those of little faith chose orange, and Jebediah told them: "Let green be chosen and God's will be done. For green to God is more pleasing than either violet or blue." - Jonah 3:12-14

... like The Hit List's iphone app from last year. That's still 'coming soon'. See first, believe later.

Mariner1 wrote:

Hey Folks-Just so you know, we submitted MacJournal for the iPhone and iPod Touch last week and are hoping that it goes live any day in the App Store.

thanks,MikeMariner Software

Burn!

Glad to see Mariner beat me to saying the app was close to being in our hands. Very excited to see it released.

I'm just extremely glad the apps are compatible with the iPhone OS, and not iPad-spefic, as I fear the Omni apps will be. AND why I wonder why I still wonder why I can edit word docs but not pages docs on my iPod Touch...

Of course, my unreasonable dream as always is the ability to possibly not use the MacJournal license, but instead redeem the purchase for that app's MSRP towards some other Mariner app that's in another bundle but not this one. Yes, I know it's unreasonable and way too much work for the company. But I guy can dream, right?

Serious question about MacJournal here: does it work with iWeb or not. The manual says you can send journal entries to iWeb. The developer blog says this feature was disabled and they are working on it. Any one with iWeb '09 who can answer this?